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Learning and Co-creating to Transform
A Portrait of the Pedagogy
A Portrait of the Pedagogy
WHAT
WHAT
Placed-Based Critical Arts Education (PBCA) is a process of community research and artistic co-creation. Through ethnography and community research, young people investigate issues that are central to themselves and their community. Based on this research, young people undergo a process of artistic creation that responds to community need.
WHO
WHO
This pedagogy is for everyone. This is a highly customizable resource that strives to support educators and facilitators from all walks of life. We designed a guide for those who work with children, adolescents, and adults. This is for those who have never facilitated an artistic process, and for seasoned artists looking to incorporate research into their curriculum.
HOW
HOW
Place-Based Critical Arts (PBCA) is a process of collaborative community research and co-creation. In our framework, resource guide, and sample lesson plans, we provide resources to support educators through the planning, research, and artistic process of creating an PBCA project.
WHY
WHY
Place-Based Critical Arts (PBCA) education is a liberatory pedagogy that supports youth develop the skills and confidence to enact meaningful change in their communities. PBCA facilitates youth in both learning about with issues and injustices that feel urgently important to their communities, and creatively taking action to redress these injustices.
WHERE
WHERE
This work can happen anywhere: in the home, in the classroom, in the studio, in the community. We provide three sample lessons: an elementary school classroom, a high school classroom, and a community- based organization.
WHEN
WHEN
This work can happen anytime. As relationship-building and artistic processes take time, we recommend that projects last at least 4 weeks.
Why consider Place-Based Critical Arts?
Why consider Place-Based Critical Arts?
6 Reasons why:
6 Reasons why:
PBCA engages your students by connecting their learning to their daily experiences and lived reality.
PBCA allows for real-world learning opportunities for students to apply their content knowledge and skills to a local situation that matters to them.
PBCA is project-based and allows for the acquisition of 21st century “soft skills” necessary in today’s world.
PBCA builds critical thinking skills and critical consciousness of the way their social surround and circumstances have come to be.
PBCA is strength-based and builds students’ agency and positions them as important agents of change in their community.
In combining these techniques -- both which root students in their context and encourage radical imagination -- PBCA deepens student engagement in their local context, and motivates them towards action.
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